sorry this took so long!
Katie's quiet wasn't something Fred didn't pick up on. He knew she had been having kind of a rough time - more so than a lot of people they knew - and the current state of things couldn't have made it any easier for her. But for the meantime, at least, there was only so much he could say to her in public. "Hey, chin up, KB. You're doing enough by keeping a good spirit, yeah?" He grinned good-naturedly, trying to ease her introspection, before standing up straight again, reaching behind the counter and pulling out a small tin of candy and offering it to her, "Now I know what you're thinking, but I swear on every team in the league that these are just ordinary sweets."